Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life
Christina Hoff Sommers, Fred Sommers | Wadsworth Publishing
July 01, 2000

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    Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life

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    0155067966

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    8.00'' x 5.50''
  • 912 Paperback pages

This best-selling anthology offers students an engaging, intellectually challenging selection of readings that address fundamental ethical issues. Students will become acquainted with central ethical theories and learn methods for reasoning about moral issues. Furthermore, the text encourages students to consider their own moral history and character.

Christina Hoff Sommers is a resident fellow at AEI.

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  • Christina Hoff Sommers, a former philosophy professor who taught ethics, is probably best known for her critique of late-twentieth-century feminism. She is also known for her extensive writings, among them Who Stole Feminism? (Touchstone Books, 1995), The War Against Boys (Touchstone Books, 2001), One Nation Under Therapy (St. Martin's Press, 2005), and The Science on Women and Science (AEI Press, 2009). Her textbook, Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life, a bestseller in college ethics, is currently in its ninth edition. Her new book Freedom Feminism—Its Surprising History and Why it Matters Today will be published in spring 2013 by AEI Press. A new and revised version of The War Against Boys: How Misguided Policies Are Harming our Young Men will be out in August 2013 (Simon and Schuster).
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    Email: sommers22@gmail.com

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